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acidrain69 t1_irbk29l wrote

One of their big solutions is being 30 miles away from the coasts. It’s not something you can do to fix existing communities. Something is eventually going to happen with insurance; they are leaving the market in droves and the last-resort carrier in Florida is ballooning. At some point they’re going to have to refuse to rebuild in areas where things keep getting destroyed.

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VoxEcho t1_ircglt1 wrote

I live in Michigan now but I was born and raised in Florida. A lot of my coworkers or friends that are native to Michigan will ask me about hurricanes when I mention I grew up in Florida, and I'll comply with a horror story or two of losing power for weeks at a time or having water flood up to our front door or trees falling around the house, all the usual things. People are usually amazed anyone can live through stuff like that.

The actual secret is I grew up in Tallahassee. It was that bad there, and we might as well be in middle Georgia for how much hurricanes actually affect the area. Living by the coast you might as well kiss your property goodbye. There's not much long term you can usefully do.

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acidrain69 t1_ire9bnc wrote

I grew up in south Florida but always pretty far inland. It’s cheaper living and less damaging in a storm.

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